The "Core Indicators of Effectiveness Report" delineates the performance of Wyoming's community colleges as measured by the 14 indicators set forth by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and adopted by the seven Wyoming community colleges and the Wyoming Community College Commission. These indicators, while providing…

An investigation of the hiring policies of Iowa businesses and industries with respect to the employment of blind persons was one purpose of this study. A second purpose was to determine the opinions of blind clients of the Iowa Commission for the Blind concerning the industrial arts program at the Commission. Some findings are: (1) Over 97…

Attitudes and perceptions of 295 college students regarding hiring of individuals with various communication characteristics and rank ordering of 20 job-related criteria were compared with attitudes of 95 recruiters. Students majoring in speech pathology/audiology were generally more tolerant of all communication problems examined and their…

A total of 338 employers, service providers, and high school students with mild mental disabilities and learning disabilities completed the Successful Employment Survey. Results indicated that service providers and employers have similar expectations about what individuals with disabilities need for workplace success, whereas students ranked…

The study determined the perceptions of interns and agribusinessmen towards the internship course at Auburn University, a supervised practicum in technical agribusiness competencies. Questionnaire responses from 37 interns and 37 agribusinessmen rated characteristics of the internship as very good to outstanding. Nine recommendations for program…

Two hundred fourteen graduates of seven occupational disciplines constituted the survey population for this 1970-74 follow-up study. The 141 usable responses to the mail survey represent a 65.9 percent rate of return. The survey instrument was desgined to initiate responses from the graduates in terms of: (1) appropriateness of the course of study…

From January to August 1975, Los Angeles Valley College was involved in a Senior Adult Work-Study-Serve project which provided work-study employment for adults over retirement age. In addition to working at part-time jobs at a salary of $2.25 per hour for 15 hours per week, participants enrolled in a three-unit specially developed course, Career…

Bakersfield College conducted a study to determine what type of academic year calendar would be most appropriate for that institution. The alternative calendars considered were an August to May calendar (early-start) and a September to June calendar (traditional). Primary considerations were: (1) enabling students to receive quality education and…

A study designed to determine whether career expectations were the same as career opportunities found that business administrators considered that the office administration major prepared women for secretarial jobs, while women university students considered that their major prepared them for administrative positions. The students were also more…

A study identified important attributes of secondary and postsecondary marketing programs as perceived by five market segments: employers of marketing students, businesses not employing marketing students, high school marketing graduates, postsecondary marketing graduates, and current postsecondary students. The second segment differed in…

A project was conducted to obtain information about the effectiveness of the cooperative vocational education method through an examination of evaluations conducted in other states and an analysis of data gathered in South Carolina. The evaluations conducted in other states (reviewed through the literature) provide evidence to support the…

In spring 1981, Lawson State Community College (LSCC) conducted a survey of its various constituencies to determine: (1) how aware various groups were of the college and its programs; (2) their sources of information about LSCC; (3) how they ranked LSCC in comparison to two other local two-year colleges; (4) the factors they considered important…

This study is an evaluation of the educational administration department at West Virginia University. A questionnaire used in a 1975 study was revised and sent to the same departmental graduates and also to their employers. Specific indicators of graduate education quality and relevance were used as was an analysis of the content and instruction…

Six school sites were visited to evaluate the work being done there in the third and final year of the Ohio Experience-Based Career Education program (EBCE) for secondary students (primarily 9th and 10th graders). Evaluators interviewed school staff, present and former EBCE participants, and employers in the communities. Questionnaires were also…

The author appraises the training policies of French enterprises in light of the experiences of neighboring countries and from two complementary points of view: (1) the need of the enterprise for trained personnel and (2) its major role in providing training. (CH)